daim
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,971
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
daim is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cervidé d’une grandeur moyenne entre le cerf et le chevreuil, à la robe tachetée et au bois plat et palmé. Pronounced \dɛ̃\. Often confused with di and dm.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | daim |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #30,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for daim is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,971 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for daim, with forms such as "adim", "daimm", and "dami". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "di", "dm", "dix", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is daim, spelled D-A-I-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cervidé d’une grandeur moyenne entre le cerf et le chevreuil, à la robe tachetée et au bois plat et palmé.
- 2Cervidé d’une grandeur moyenne entre le cerf et le chevreuil, à la robe tachetée et au bois plat et palmé.
- 3Viande de cet animal.
- 4Peau tannée de cet animal.
- 5Peau tannée de cet animal.
- 6Peau tannée de cet animal.
- 7Peau tannée de cet animal.
- 8Peau tannée de cet animal.
- 9Cuir de bovidés à l'aspect suédé, c'est à dire soit du cuir velours, soit du nubuck.
- 10Personnage élégant et vaniteux.
- 11Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il se blasonne comme le cerf dont il se distingue par la ramure qui est plus large et plate. À rapprocher de biche, cerf, chevreuil et élan.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: adim,daimm,dami,ddaim
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for daim
Misspelling Variants of "daim"
Frequency rank: #30,971 in French
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Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index: